The January image for the 2022 Photography 139 Calendar is an image I took for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. It is of a corn crib (methinks) that was blown askew by the derecho. It is slightly east of Boone on US-30. Tomorrow I will reveal the February image. +++++++ Thus… Read More »WPC – 327 – CANDID PORTRAIT
Can you believe that this is the 4,250th post in this crazy little thing called “An Artist’s Notebook’. 4,250 posts! It has been 5,549 days since I took keyboard in hand on August 9, 2006 and typed these words: So here is the first journal entry. The name of that… Read More »Journal Entry #4,250
I’m trying to piece the 2011 archives together across a few different hard drives. I know I have definitely lost a bunch of images in 2011, but I’m always discovering some that I thought were lost but really aren’t. In the folder 2011-01-27 are the first set of pictures I… Read More »2011-01-27
At the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011 I seem to have lost a ton of pictures. I’m grouping all the pictures that are in the folder 01JANUARY2011 together for this post: By adding these pictures to the Photography 139 Gallery, I was able to restore the following… Read More »01JANUARY2011
I’m pretty sure that this is the most popular theme in the history of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE. 30 submissions! Wow! I’m glad to see so many people have people they consider FRIENDS or could at least find a group of somebody else’s FRIENDS to photograph or found something that… Read More »WPC – WEEK 310 – FRIENDS
I was recently invited to Maven’s Birthday Party. It took place at a carousel! Yeah, all other parties are now ruined for me. You are going to have to step it up if you want this guy to make an appearance. Not entirely true. I will show up to any… Read More »Ain’t No Party Like A Carousel Party!
The theme of RED did fire the passions of a few people as there were a healthy amount of submissions for RED this week. But you didn’t come here to listen to me talk all tommyrot about participation rates. You came to see the submissions: Micky Augustin Carla Stensland Christopher… Read More »WPC – WEEK 300 – RED
I did return to THE SELFIE PROJECT in May. I’m not sure I travelled many places, but I did manage to leave Boone a couple of times. Here are some of my favorites from May: May 1, 2021 May 2, 2021 May 3, 2021 May 4, 2021 May 6, 2021… Read More »Selfie Project – May 2021
There weren’t many pictures in the folders 2010-08-25, 2010-08-26, and 2010-08-30 so I combined them with the folder 2010-08-29. Most of the pictures are from a baby shower Sara and I (she really did all the work) for Jen and Derrick when Jen was preggers with Evie. There are also… Read More »2010-08-25, 2010-08-26, 2010-08-29, and 2010-08-30
There aren’t many images in the folders 2010-08-13 and 2010-08-14 so I decided to combine them with the folder 2010-08-16 that contains many pictures from a trip I took to the Iowa State Fair. There are also pictures of Jesse and two of his progeny and of a moonflower. By… Read More »2010-08-13, 2010-08-14, & 2010-08-16
For those of you that haven’t heard, my Mom passed away about 10 days ago. Because of that, I have not been in a state to reveal the submissions for LOVE on time or reveal the new theme for last week. Because of that, I don’t know how steady my… Read More »WPC – WEEK 289 – LOVE
The pictures in the folder 2010-07-26 are from a road trip I took to Minnesota with Sara. It was frankly one the best road trips of my life. I got to hang out with some of my favorite people in the world. I got to see my favorite band in… Read More »2010-07-26
I need to start today by wishing my sister Carla a happy birthday. Happy birthday Carla! I hope your birthday is as wonderful as you want it to be! +++++++ I also need to wish Monica a happy birthday. Happy birthday Monica! I hope your birthday is as amazing as… Read More »WPC – WEEK 287 – PICTURE IN PICTURE
The folders 2010-06-29, 2010-06-30, & 2010-07-01 Center Street Bridge are fairly small, so I combined them all into one fair sized post. Most of them are pictures of flowers, but a few are pictures I took with Sara at or near the Center Street Bridge in Des Moines. By adding… Read More »2010-06-29, 2010-06-30, & 2010-07-01
August 9, 2006. That was the date where I first took keyboard in hand and began typing out the blog that I entitled “An Artist’s Notebook”. I entitled that first post “First Journal Entry”. The categories for that first post were “Blogging”, “Contests”, “Jay”, and “Sara”. This is the first… Read More »Post #4,000
Here we are, the last day of 2020. That means it is time for me to share the December image from the 2021 Photography 139 Calendar. Because of the pandemic, I got to deliver very few calendars in person this year. I think the only reactions that I got to… Read More »POSTCARD RECREATION PROJECT – SOME CHURCHES
As I’ve started to distribute the Photography 139 2021 Calendars, it is time to start revealing the pictures that made the cut: Front Cover The front cover image is an HDR image of Naima wading into the pond at Dickcissel Park while the sun goes down in the west. It… Read More »2010-05-30
I need to start today by wishing Shawn a happy birthday. Happy birthday Shawn! I hope your birthday is as wonderful as you want it to be! +++++++ I do love pictures of SIGNS. My sister-in-law Laura once told me that this makes me a hipster. She is wrong about… Read More »Maybe I’m a Man and Maybe I’m a Lonely Man
I need to start off this day by wishing Sara a happy birthday. Happy birthday Sara! I hope your birthday was as amazing as you wanted it to be! +++++++ It is also Scottie D.’s birthday! Happy birthday Scottie D.! I hope your birthday was as amazing as you wanted… Read More »2010-04-11
The pictures in the folder 2010-04-08 are from a photo shoot for my 2010 Birthday Party invitation. The theme for the invitation was “Done Got Old”. The pictures were taken by Sara. The guitar in the pictures was donated by Derrick. The cane was from Sara’s personal collection of canes.… Read More »2010-04-08
The pictures from the folder 2010-03-31 are from when I was officially given the title of Lone Wolf. Willy had been out there masquerading as a lone wolf for years. He had to have his wings clipped by Jay. Jay made me a mask that was presented to me and… Read More »2010-03-31